The agreement will deliver significant and tangible benefits for companies and citizens in Europe and Japan. It will enter into force on 1 February 2019. EU companies, farmers, workers and consumers will start reaping the benefits of simpler and faster trade between the EU and Japan.

It is hoped The Conference will agree new measures to make life safer and more dignified for people on the move. The text of the agreement, formally known as the Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, agreed by Member States under the auspices of the UN General Assembly last July.

Turkey: GRECO is concerned about lack of judicial independence as well as transparency of the legislative process and political financing. Only 2 out of 22 of the European Recommendations on these issues have been implemented satisfactorily by Turkey

Nearly one child in seven is currently living in relative income poverty. Child poverty rates are especially high in Chile, Israel, Spain, Turkey and the United States, where more than one child in five lives in income poverty.